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Two new checklists, Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea, have just been published in Nature Biotechnology! The checklists were conceived by Tanja Woyke Robert Bowers of JGI. These extensions…

The M2B3 Reporting Standard has been published in the SIGS Journal. The M2B3 standard describes minimal mandatory and recommended contextual information for a marine microbial sample obtained in the epipelagic zone, includes meaningful information for researchers in the oceanographic, biodiversity and…

The SIGS journal continues to grow and is now a leading journal for the publication of ‘genome notes’ (using the GSC’s MIxS standard). Please consider contributing your next articles to this Open Access journal.

An open-access article describing the GSC’s MIxS standard has been published in Nature Biotechnology – it includes the MIMARKS checklist and the set of environmental packages applicable to all GSC checklists and beyond.

The GSC is launching an open-access online journal to support its mission. The “Standards in Genomic Sciences” (SIGS) journal will provide a forum for publishing genome and metagenome notes structured according to the GSC’s MIGS/MIMS specification. It will also support…

Another MIGS-compliant report has been published as a Supplementary an article – see Reference 137 and the table S1 listed in the Materials and Methods. “Adaptations to Submarine Hydrothermal Environments Exemplified by the Genome of Nautilia profundicola” See the full…

The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) has produced a second special issue of OMICS. The first, published in 2006, brought together 20 invited papers from a diversity of standards communities, many of which are still in the most read list of…

At the heart of the MIGS specification is a call for all genomes and metagenomes to be reported with geographic location (lat/long). We were therefore very pleased to see a Nature Editorial calling for ALL biological samples to be tagged…

Thanks to the work of so many, the “Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence” (MIGS) perspective has finally appear in print in Nature Biotechnology. It contains the definitive version of the MIGS checklist as it applies to genome and metagenomes…